Noah Feldman served as senior advisor on constitutional law to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and as advisor to Iraqis involved in the constitutional process there. Among his publications:What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building,(2004); After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy,(2003). His third book, Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem, will be released in fall 2005.

Feldman joined NYU from Harvard University, where he was a Junior Fellow.

He received his A.B. from Harvard University, was selected as a Rhodes Scholar,received a doctorate in Islamic Thought from Oxford University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.